Chapters 4 and 5 provided experimental data on sensitivity to agreement violations in children with developmental dyslexia. This chapter studies processing of agreement violations and phrase-structure violations in adults with developmental dyslexia. The method of testing is different from that used in the previous chapters. Rather than focussing on the overt linguistic behaviour, the reactions...

This review discusses recent cognitive neuroscience investigations into the biological bases of developmental dyslexia, a common disorder impacting approximately 5 to 17 percent of the population. Our aim is to summarize central findings from several lines of evidence that converge on pivotal aspects of the brain bases of developmental dyslexia. We highlight ways in which the approaches and met...

Developmental dyslexia is a heterogeneous syndrome with a phonological core deficit and frequent association with other developmental disorders. Controversies exist about the influence of motor difficulties frequently encountered in dyslexia. According to different theoretical approaches, these motor impairments would reflect either a frequent co-morbid entity or a cerebellar dysfunction that c...

Abstract Developmental dyslexia is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by an unexpected impairment in literacy acquisition leading to specific poor academic achievement and possible secondary symptoms. The multi-level framework of developmental considers five levels causal pathway on which given genotype expressed hierarchically transmitted from one level the next under increasing influ...

The main focus of this article is to develop a better understanding of the developmental trajectories of literacy and phonological skills within Dutch-speaking children. Children at high and low risk for dyslexia were followed and compared at four different moments: kindergarten and first, third and sixth grades. Three groups were then compared: (1) dyslexic readers; (2) normal readers at high ...

Sixteen controls (age 6-13) and 20 native Italian children with developmental dyslexia (age 7-15) received a test of callosal transfer of tactile information. Among the dyslexic children, 7 had a diagnosis of L-type, 7 of P-type and 6 of M-type dyslexia according to Bakker's classification. Both control children and children with dyslexia made a significantly larger number of errors in the cros...

Abstract Several studies have signaled grammatical difficulties in individuals with developmental dyslexia. These may stem from a phonological deficit, but alternatively be explained through domain-general deficit statistical learning. This study investigates grammar children and without dyslexia, whether memory and/or learning ability contribute to individual differences performance. We admini...